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An Enormous Elevation of the Capacity to See

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Love Matters are wisdom words from Fr. Thomas Keating spoken during the filming of the new series God is Love: The Heart of All Creation. Some are included in the series; others are from footage published here for the first time. A new word will be posted every Monday throughout the year. May they serve to inspire hope and lift your heart.

To see God present is an enormous elevation of the capacity to see because it’s seeing the Presence and Source and the Love and the Person of the Trinitarian relationships that are present in the smallest particle that we know of and beyond. He’s always speaking to us, but not in our language, in his language which is basically silence. But it’s intuitive, it’s telepathic. What I’ve noticed when I’ve felt that God is trying to tell me something, the phrase comes up on the screen, you might say - not a computer because I don’t know how to use them. But inwardly it’s as if you have the whole sentence at once. A computer, you know, waits for the words, sometimes they’re all there. So it’s like that. You get a kind of nudge or a kind of hint or a kind of suggestion and it’s all there in a few words that are not spoken, that are perfectly clear, sometimes clearer than at other times. And that’s because the Divine Presence is always within us. This can be understood as the glorified Christ or as the Holy Spirit or as the Trinity or as the Higher Consciousness or as the One Self or as the Higher Self. So I think God has many ways of communicating and they’re all valuable, infinitely valuable. But some will be more suitable for us at certain stages of our journey.